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Vor 4 Tagen · Erich Honecker was a communist official who, as first secretary of East Germany’s Socialist Unity Party of Germany (Sozialistische Einheitspartei Deutschlands, or SED), was East Germany’s leader from 1971 until he fell from power in 1989 in the wake of the democratic reforms sweeping eastern.
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Vor 5 Tagen · Upon the war's end in 1945, Allied leaders issued the Potsdam Agreement, which ceded German territories east of the Oder River and stipulated “the transfer to Germany of German populations…in Poland, Czechoslovakia and Hungary” (Potsdam Agreement, 1945)—though as historian Lauren Stokes points out, in a 1946 survey up to 40% of the new arrivals noted that they had not identified as ...
Vor 9 Stunden · If you read economic reports on east Germany you’re often left with this feeling like it’s an empty wasteland because all the young and competent people have emigrated for the chance of a better future. It is true that on average you will earn more in West Germany, and you will no doubt have more carreer and life opportunities there. But ...
Vor 3 Tagen · The harsh pressures of relative backwardness brought down the Soviet system in the 1980s and helped to liquidate the East German State that incorporated Russia's claim to have shared post-1945 leadership with the West. The pressures encroaching on the capitalist world from the 1970s to the 1990s led to the end of full employment, an ...
Vor 3 Tagen · Communist regimes began to collapse in eastern Europe, and democratic governments rose in East Germany, Poland, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia, followed by the reunification of West and East Germany under NATO auspices. Gorbachev’s reforms meanwhile weakened his own communist party and allowed power to shift to the constituent ...
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Vor 10 Stunden · Erpenbeck said she hoped the book would help readers learn there was more to life in the now-vanished Communist country than depicted in “The Lives of Others,” the Academy Award-winning 2006 ...
Vor 10 Stunden · LONDON (AP) — German author Jenny Erpenbeck and translator Michael Hofmann won the International Booker Prize for fiction Tuesday for “Kairos,” the story of a tangled love affair during the ...
